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  Healthy cities, healthy children

  The Progress of Nations Report, UNICEF, 1999

  Economic development has brought comfort and convenience to many people in the industrialized world, but in its wake are pollution, new health problems, blighted urban landscapes and social isolation. Growing numbers of the dispossessed are also being left on the sidelines as the disparity between rich and poor grows.
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  Plan of Action for Implementing the World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of Children

  United Nations Children's Fund, 1999
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  Population and Development: Implications for the World Bank

  Health, Nutrition and Population Division, Human Development Department, World Bank, 1994

  Report examines the changes in population dynamics and in the policy environment that have produced this consensus and explores their policy and operational implications for the World Bank's population work. The report has five core messages: Slowing population growth is still a high priority in the poorest countries.
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  Income distribution and social expenditure in Brazil

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997

  This paper examines trends in income distribution in Brazil and the determinants of income inequality, including social expenditure. The distribution of income in Brazil is among the most unequal in the world and also highly skewed regionally, with the richest state enjoying a per capita income seven times that of the poorest state.
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  Global mortality, disability, and the contribution of risk factors: Global Burden of Disease Study

  ProCor, 1997

  Prevention and control of disease and injury require information about the leading medical causes of illness and exposures or risk factors. The assessment of the public-health importance of these has been hampered by the lack of common methods to investigate the overall, world wide burden.
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  Tibetan Women Oppression and Discrimination in occupied Tibet

  Office of Tibet, Government of Tibet in Exile, 1999

  Report highlights the particular concerns of Tibetan women inside Tibet and those living as refugees in exile. This report also ncludes a list of recommendations which, it is hoped, will serve as inputs to thediscussions for the Draft Platform.
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  Making debt relief work: a test of political will

  Oxfam, 1998

  Two years ago the adoption by the Governing Boards of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative appeared to signal the beginning of the end of the debt crisis in the world's poorest countries.
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  Development indicators: a working of indicators of development progress

  Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 1998

  Set of indicators agreed by UN, World Bank and the OECD. WWW site explains the core set of indicators that will be used - at a global level - to monitor performance and adjust development strategies as required. These give an integrated world view of human well-being in its economic, social and environmental aspects.
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  Water resources managment: IISD resource guide

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 1999

  List of important document (with abstract) and related WWW sites. Prepared by IISD Information Centre
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  Civil society: IISD resource guide

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 1998

  Bibilography of key paper resources concerning civil society and sustainable development accompanied by short abstracts. Also details of relevant WWW sites. Prepared by IISD Information Centre

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